Water-motor



N0. 6l6.278. Patented Dec. 20, I898.

' J. A. WALKER.

WATER MOTOR.

(Application filed Jan. 13, 1898.; (No Model.)

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JOSEPH A. \VALKER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

WATER-MOTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,278, dated December20, 1898.

Application filed January 13, 1898. Serial No. 666,581. (No model.)

T on whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. WALKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ater-Motors; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification.

My invention relates more especially to water-motors employing cables intheir construction; and it consists in the novel construction andcombination of parts, such as will be first fully described and thenspecifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleva tion of a water-motor, showingthe cable-carrying wheels and my improved cable applied thereto. Fig. 2is a detail side view of a por tion of the blade-carrying endless cablewith a portion of the wire strands broken away to show the rubber core.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a .water-motor, in which a a.are the separate side floats and a the sluiceway between the B B areseparate cable-carrying wheels at each end and near one of the sidefloats of the water-motor, each wheel being suitably mounted upon ashaft 1) in sliding journalboxes 6 upon the standards b b on each float.

The wheels 13 B are arranged in pairs on the separate shafts at each endof the floats, so as to carry separate endless cables, the Wheels B BYas shown upon one side of the motor, however, being sufficient toillustrate the invention.

The energizing force of the water is obtained in my invention throughthe medium of a flexible blade-carrying cable 0, which is constructed asfollows: I first prepare the core 0 of the cable from sheets of purerubber of suitable length to form the core to the cable, which rubber isrolled from one longi tudinal edge portion and closely folded or united,so as to form a convoluted body or core, around which core the wireforming the covering to the cable is twisted in a series of strands; Thecore may be formed of vulcanized india-rubber. The pure rubber, however,is better adapted to resist the eifects of the cold temperature. whenthe sheet of rubber is thicker than ordinary, the core may be formed bya single fold. I thus obtain a flexible or pliable cable impervious towater and which will resist the action of heat and cold to disintegratethe rubber. It will be observed that this core, being composed of sheetsof folded rubber, will remain pliable, and thus the friction and a largeper cent. of the power to operate the cable are saved. Furthermore, thecore will not grow hard and brittle from the efiects of the cold andbreak under the strain applied to the cable, as is the case with moldedrubber.

With my improved cable the motor may be operated at all-seasons of theyear without danger of becoming rigid when enveloped in me.

My invention also adds to the life of the cable and adapts it forvarious uses. In its application to the water-motor one end of the cableis extended over one wheel B at one end of the floats and the other endover the other wheel '13 at the other end of the floats and the two endsconnected together in the usual manner, said wheels B B being eachgrooved circumferentially to receive the cable. The blades D areconnected with the separate cables in the usual manner. The wheels B Bare each notched at b to receive the blade-clamping plates d, which maybe employed or not, as the exigency requires. The power is conveyed fromthe wheels B B when the blades D are in the sluice a to thespeed-pulleys F through the cable E, and thence to the dynamo orgenerator of elec= tricity G through cable H.

Having fully described my invention, what I now claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A flexible cable the core of which is composed of a sheet of rubberin a convoluted body.

2; In a, Water-motor comprising side floats having an intermediatesluice, the combina tion with power-conveying wheels at each end of saidfloats extending Within said sluice of a flexible cable extending overthe respective power-conveying wheels said cable having a core composedof convoluted sheets of rubber.

J OSEPII A. WALKER. itnesses:

THEo. L. CARNS, M. A. DENNIS.

